Beekeepers have agreed to pay an extra 2.3 cents for every kilo of honey sold, to boost biosecurity programs.

President of the Tasmanian Beekeepers Association Lindsay Bourke says the industry expects that will amount to an additional $400,000 dollars a year from the industry, and it will garner additional government funds.

"Yes it will go up to 4.6 cents for every kilogram of honey.

"And the 2.3 cents increase will go entirely into biosecurity, along with the money that already went in.

"So that's a big increase from us."

Mr Bourke says while 86 per cent of the votes were for doubling the levy, the total number of votes was low.

He says the funds will be used to expand pest and disease surveillance as well as the industry's emergency contingency fund.

"We've got to increase the sentinel hive program," he says.

"The unmanned program that we've got, we put hives all around the ports with camera recognition in them and (pictures) are sent back to a base.

"So we've got to expand that to cover all of the ports, so we've got lots of things to spend it on.

"Also the horrible old things we've had for nearly 200 years.

"The disease American foul brood is pretty bad in some of the mainland states, and we need a bit of money to counteract that."

The AHBIC meeting also saw members vote to disband the peak body, Federal Council of Australian Apiarists Association, because it had become redundant.

Funds from the Federal Council will be put into the industry's emergency disease contingency fund.